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Early intervention initiative set to expand

Monday, April 16, 2018

| CYP Now

A national task force is to expand its efforts to help local authorities, charities and funders intervene early to avoid children and young people experiencing a range of social problems.

Educational impact of children's centres 'impossible to measure', Zahawi claims

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Friday, February 23, 2018

| CYP Now

It is impossible to measure whether services provided by children's centres improve educational outcomes, children's minister Nadhim Zahawi has said.

North-south divide apparent by age five, report finds

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Tuesday, October 27, 2015

| CYP Now

Poor children in the north of England are faring worse by the age of five than their counterparts in London, a study has found.

Corbyn names Lucy Powell shadow education secretary

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Monday, September 14, 2015

| CYP Now

New Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn has appointed Lucy Powell shadow education secretary.

Call for children's centres to tackle ‘loneliness' among parents

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Tuesday, August 25, 2015

| CYP Now

Children's centres should be at the heart of efforts to tackle the emerging issue of loneliness among parents, a children's charity has said.

Children's centres: seven councils responsible for more than half of closures

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Wednesday, July 22, 2015

| CYP Now

Just seven councils are responsible for more than half the closures of children's centres since 2010 according to figures provided by childcare minister Sam Gyimah.

Early intervention funding halved under coalition

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Monday, July 6, 2015

| CYP Now

Councils have cut spending on early intervention by a further eight per cent in 2015/16 on the back of funding being halved under the coalition government, CYP Now can reveal.

Cameron: Government to intervene more in child protection

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Tuesday, June 23, 2015

| CYP Now

More local authority children's services departments will be taken out of council control in order to tackle failure, Prime Minister David Cameron has said.

Prime Minister creates taskforces to drive childcare and troubled families reforms

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Wednesday, June 3, 2015

| CYP Now

Efforts to increase provision of free childcare and expand the troubled families initiative will be monitored by new taskforces, the government has announced.

Funding for children's centres cut by £460m

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Friday, May 22, 2015

| CYP Now

Government funding for children's centres has dropped by more than a third since 2010, it has emerged.

Sector demands early intervention commitment from next government

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Tuesday, May 5, 2015

| CYP Now

More than 50 children's sector organisations have joined forces to call on the next government to significantly boost early intervention spending.

Ofsted's Debbie Jones quits social care director post

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Wednesday, April 15, 2015

| CYP Now

Ofsted's director of social care Debbie Jones has resigned her post, CYP Now can reveal.

MPs call for national parenting support programme

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Tuesday, March 24, 2015

| CYP Now

There should be national co-ordination of parenting support with local authorities playing a more active role in evaluating provision in their area, a parliamentary inquiry has concluded.

ADCS backs early intervention drive for next government

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Friday, March 6, 2015

| CYP Now

The next government must take action to ensure savings from early intervention work is ploughed back into children's services, the Association of Directors of Children's services (ADCS) has said.

4Children appoints Imelda Redmond as new chief

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Thursday, February 5, 2015

| CYP Now

A longstanding campaigner for better end of life care is to become the new chief executive of charity 4Children.

Poor families with young children 'hit hardest' by government reforms

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Tuesday, January 27, 2015

| CYP Now

Government changes to tax and benefits have hit families with young children and poorer households the hardest, a major study has found.

Children's charities criticise focus of government spending plans

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Wednesday, December 3, 2014

| CYP Now

Children's charities have criticised the government for failing to prioritise the needs of children in the Chancellor's Autumn Statement.

Council early intervention projects get funding boost

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Tuesday, December 2, 2014

| CYP Now

Three local authorities have been awarded £7.6m of government funding to deliver early intervention projects for young children and their families.

Charity raises fears over cuts to early help funding

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Monday, November 17, 2014

| CYP Now

Support services for vulnerable children are fast approaching a "tipping point" due to cuts to early intervention spending, Action for Children has warned.

Charity urges social care role for children's centres

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Wednesday, November 5, 2014

| CYP Now

Children's centres should become gatekeepers to the children's social care system under a radical new model put forward by 4Children.

Somerset DCS sacking: Peter Lewis speaks out

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Friday, October 24, 2014

| CYP Now

A lack of authority-wide support for change and an "arcane" IT system were key reasons for slow progress in improving children's services in Somerset, the council's former director of children's services (DCS) has claimed.

Majority of children's centres expect funding cut

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Monday, October 13, 2014

| CYP Now

More than half of children's centres are set to see their budgets reduce over the next year, a charity survey has shown.

Children's centres in Wirral set for major overhaul

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Tuesday, September 16, 2014

| CYP Now

Wirral Borough Council is considering a major shake-up of the region's children's centres in an effort to save money and reduce the number of child social care referrals.

NSPCC, Children's Society, Barnardo's and Action for Children join forces on early intervention

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Thursday, July 24, 2014

| CYP Now

The chief executives of four of the country's leading children's charities have agreed to take part in a panel debate on the future of early intervention services at a CYP Now conference in September.

Councils fail to share new birth data with children's centres

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Wednesday, July 16, 2014

| CYP Now

More than a third of councils are failing to share birth data with children's centres, according to a damning Children's Society report into information sharing.

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Early intervention initiative set to expand

Educational impact of children's centres 'impossible to measure', Zahawi claims

North-south divide apparent by age five, report finds

Corbyn names Lucy Powell shadow education secretary

Call for children's centres to tackle ‘loneliness' among parents

Children's centres: seven councils responsible for more than half of closures

Early intervention funding halved under coalition

Cameron: Government to intervene more in child protection

Prime Minister creates taskforces to drive childcare and troubled families reforms

Funding for children's centres cut by £460m

Sector demands early intervention commitment from next government

Ofsted's Debbie Jones quits social care director post

MPs call for national parenting support programme

ADCS backs early intervention drive for next government

4Children appoints Imelda Redmond as new chief

Poor families with young children 'hit hardest' by government reforms

Children's charities criticise focus of government spending plans

Council early intervention projects get funding boost

Charity raises fears over cuts to early help funding

Charity urges social care role for children's centres

Somerset DCS sacking: Peter Lewis speaks out

Majority of children's centres expect funding cut

Children's centres in Wirral set for major overhaul

NSPCC, Children's Society, Barnardo's and Action for Children join forces on early intervention

Councils fail to share new birth data with children's centres

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